Which is the regulatory framework for seeds in Argentina? And in the world? What intellectual property instruments exist? How do they affect the Argentine seed system? What problems does it ...

En colaboración con el Área de Sustentabilidad y Ambiente de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín (SEyV), iniciamos eal proyecto “Laboratorio Vivo: cultivar, experimentar y aprender en la UNSAM”. Esta ...

In September 2024, Bioleft had the privilege of participating in the Open Science Dynamic Convergence Workshop hosted by the Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA). The workshop brought together a diverse ...

En el marco de la colaboración técnica entre Bioleft y la Rete Semi Rurali, Enrico Cresta fue invitado a presentar el trabajo que está haciendo de fitomejoramiento participativo de maíz ...

On September 10th, the Bioleft extension team visited Julia’s farm, a member of the Minka cooperative for agroecological seed production, located in Florencio Varela. This is where the varieties of ...

Este lunes 19 de agosto, Joaquín Sánchez, estudiante de Administración y Gestión Empresarial, se sumó a Bioleft como adscripto en un programa de la Escuela de Economía y Negocios (EEYN) ...

On Wednesday, July 31, the closing workshop for the 2023-2024 collaborative tomato evaluation season between Minka and Bioleft was held at Julia's farm, a member of Minka, located in Florencio ...

As part of the “Al Rescate del Tomate criollo” project [“To the Rescue of Creole Tomato”], which seeks to recover tomato flavour through the collection, exchange and collaborative breeding of ...

Recovering authentic tomato flavour is one of my biggest goals since I started to grow my food. The gatherings between urban growers, where we exchange seeds and knowledge, are crucial ...

As part of the Bioleft's participatory breeding experiments, Enrico Cresta, an organic farmer and member of Bioleft, selects and develops his own open-pollinated (OPV) and GMO-free corn variety, adapted and ...

Last June 3rd, Enrico Cresta and Almendra Cremaschi participated as speakers in the workshop “Professionalizing Practice II: evaluation and diagnosis of socio-productive experiences” developed by the University Diploma on Agroecology ...

Last June 5, International Environmental Day, Bioleft and the team from “Al Rescate del Tomate Criollo” [To the Rescue of Creole Tomato] participated in the First UBA Environmental Conference held ...

The second UNSAM Scientific and Technological Conference took place between May 27 and 30, where research teams from all academic units of the University presented progress in their research work ...

On Friday, February 22nd a long-awaited moment arrived: our yearly evaluation and planning meeting. In Bioleft we find it crucial to take some time to harvest past achievements and sow ...

From Bioleft team, with the participation of María Laura Bravo y Selva Cuppari, we shared the experience report: “Collaborative evaluation of local tomato varieties in the Participative Plant Breeding process”. ...

On November 21, the first participatory tomato breeding workshop was held as part of the "Bioleft, participatory innovation in seeds" project, under the Citizen Science  program led by the Ministry ...

In the framework of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Law on Seeds and Plant Varieties, the Interdisciplinary Center for Industrial and Economic Law (CEIDIE) of the Faculty ...

El On Tuesday, October 31, we visited our colleagues at Minka, at Julia’s seed house in Florencio Varela. The meeting […]

On Tuesday, October 3, we gathered with our parnters from Minka in his house of seeds at CEDEPO, located in the nearside of Florencio Varela. Minka semillera is an organization ...

On September 9, 2023, we had the honor of participating in the Seventh Provincial Fair of Native and Creole Seeds held at “Casona Santa Rosa” in Parque Pereyra Iraola, Berazategui, ...

Over the first in-person GOSSI meeting, and in line with the agreements reached among  the differents organizations within the network, […]

From July 14 to 16, the first in-person meeting of the Global Coalition of Open-Source Seed Initiatives took place in […]

We are plesed to inform that Bioleft has been recently selected as one of the winning projects in the call […]

On Tuesday, July 11, Bioleft coordinated the closing workshop for the 2022-23 collaborative tomato evaluation campaign, with the participation of […]

From July 5 to 8, the SCORAI, ERSCP, and WUR Conference on “Transforming Consumption-Production Systems Toward Just and Sustainable Futures” […]

From June 13 to 15, Bioleft participated in the Scientific and Technological Conference at UNSAM, organized by the Research, Development, […]

Bioleft, for the fifth consecutive year, was again chosen by the Conservation Food and Health Foundation as one of the […]

Today, there are multiple proposals that seek to develop more sustainable forms of agriculture. There are farmers with great interest […]

Almendra Cremaschi and Gustavo Schrauf participated in the 9th National and International Congress on Agrobiotechnology, Intellectual Property and Public Policies […]

From Bioleft, we have been working with the project “To the rescue of the criollo tomato” of the FAUBA Chair […]

Last Wednesday, April 19, Enrico Cresta —organic farmer member of Bioleft— visited the Semi Rurali network at its headquarters “Casa […]

On Saturday, January 21, Bioleft presented the session “Participatory breeding to promote the management of biocultural diversity. Lessons learned from […]

Ecologies, Technologies is an explorative hybrid programme on ecological thinking, creative resistance and the new commons, hosted online and at […]

On Saturday 11th – Sunday 12th of February 2023, The Gaia Foundation’s UK & Ireland Seed Sovereignty Programme will host the second […]

For this 2022-2023 campaign, we are carrying out a participatory evaluation of corn varieties improved by three farmer-breeders: Enrico Cresta, […]

Yesterday, December 28, we met with INASE to discuss the concerns of producers regarding the registration and commercialization of seeds […]

We share with you the third issue (Ambiente) of Ciencia Mostra, a popular science magazine that seeks to bring closer […]

We are happy to share that on December 1, our mate María Paz dos Santos received an “Outstanding Student” distinction […]

We share with you the Book of Abstracts of the II Argentine Congress of Agroecology, a congress in which, as […]

On this occasion we share with you the recently published electronic book “Agroecología a la carta”, a work compiled by […]

We are very proud to share with you that on Friday our team leader Almendra Cremaschi participated on the 11th […]

We are pleased to share the publication Cultura Rural. Brotes de saberes en América Latina which seeks to make visible […]

Our mate Patrick van Zwanenberg presented today “Citizen-scientist generated knowledge for open source seed innovation in Argentina” in the 4th […]

We share with you the corn harvested two farmers —one in Udaquiola (Ayacucho) and another in Las Flores, Buenos Aires— […]

On Thursday we had the pleasant opportunity to participate together with To the rescue of the Creole tomato in a […]

From Bioleft we invite you to participate next Monday in the opening workshop of the collaborative evaluation of tomatoes from […]

A new collaborative evaluation campaign for Creole tomatoes begins! To participate in the project and receive seeds, we ask for […]

She will investigate the relationship between the open seed and fair trade movements, and what learnings they can share. She […]

El día 21 de julio se dio a conocer en el boletín oficial la resolución 317/22 del INASE (Instituto Nacional […]

On Tuesday, May 31, a balance was held among the participants of the Participatory Maize Breeding Workshop at INTA Pergamino […]

Together with the project “To the rescue of the Creole tomato” of the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of […]

We share with you the episode “El código y la semilla” of the series “Ciencia en común” of the Pulsar […]

On Tuesday, May 17, the participatory maize breeding workshop took place at INTA Pergamino. During the activity, producer-breeders and researchers […]

We are very happy to share with you that Bioleft has been selected, for the fourth consecutive year, by The […]

The book “Semillas para el bien común. Compendio de experiencias latinoamericanas y herramientas legales para su defensa en México”, of […]

We are pleased to invite you to participate in a face-to-face conference co-organized between Bioleft, INTA Pergamino and FAUBA in […]

We are very happy because three new mates from very different disciplines recently joined the Bioleft team: Cecilia Reyna –graduated […]

We are very happy to share with you this article published by El Gato y la Caja about different Citizen […]

We share the recording of the corn selection workshop that we held on Monday, March 28, 2022. f you participated […]

On Monday, March 28 at 6:00 p.m., the workshop Bases for corn selection for own seed production will take place […]

Within the context of the participatory tomato breeding project that Bioleft has been coordinating for two years, last Wednesday, January […]

We share the recording of the webinar “Seeds for sustainable agriculture: challenges and opportunities in the current context” that took […]

Within the context of the collaborative maize evaluation that we have been carrying out together with 17 farmers from 8 […]

Sustainable agriculture is key to food sovereignty. In recent years, the concentration of the seed market has deepened the difficulties […]

CoLabAR, the citizen laboratory of UNDP Argentina, and the Ministry of Science co-created a mapping that brings together Argentine Citizen […]

Through the Red Mentors program of the National University of San Martín (UNSAM), this Tuesday, October 5, both Marysol Vera, […]

On Tuesday, September 21, we carried out the collective evaluation workshop for corn, in which technicians, breeders, and producers from […]

On September 15, Gustavo Schrauf and Juan Martín Richter were interviewed on the 25 hours program of Radio Colmena about […]

During the pre-conference of the Organic World Congress on September 6, Almendra Cremaschi shared the work that Bioleft has been […]

We proudly share with you the book Transformative Pathways to Sustainability (you can read it by clicking here), of which Anabel Marín, Patrick Van Zwanenberg [...]

El jueves 12 de agosto, Bioleft llevó adelante un encuentro virtual entre productores de maíz, técnicxs e investigadorxs con el […]

On Thursday, July 15, we met with producers, students, extension agents and breeders to exchange results and learnings about two […]

We are very proud to share with you the interview that was made to Gustavo Scharuf by the IP Channel, […]

Yesterday, our colleague Almendra Cremaschi shared the Bioleft project in the framework of a series of talks organized by the […]

For the third year in a row, Bioleft has won the support of the Conservation, Food and Health Foundation. Thanks […]

On Tuesday, May 18, we held a virtual meeting with Milton Vélez, producer and plant breeder from the Province of […]

During the 2019-2020 summer campaign, Enrico Cresta, a maize producer and breeder who is a member of Bioleft and the […]

On Monday, May 10th, we held a closing and conclusions meeting of the participatory evaluation trial of creole tomatoes carried […]

As members of GOSSI (the Global Coalition of Open Source Seed Initiatives), from Bioleft we invite you to participate in […]

Bioleft’s network continues to grow. Last Tuesday, April 21st, we held the first Workshop on Participatory Improvement and Digital Technologies […]

In 1969, in an American context in which discontent with environmental problems was increasing, the senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson […]

The new Practical Manual on the Right to Seeds in Europe focuses on the steps that the European Union (EU) and the […]

The team of Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad – Lancis, Instituto de Ecología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma […]

Introducing Bioleft’s series of technical webinars, designed to support different types of stakeholders with knowledge. We begin with one of […]

Native and creole seeds are the heritage of the peoples, but current regulatory frameworks threaten this heritage. The SemillAR program […]

On February 17, the ESRC STEPS Centre launched a series of virtual dialogues on methodologies, exploring the theme of ‘Challenging […]

On January 29 we had a working meeting with the MASIPAG team, a Philippine network that brings together 30,000 farmers. […]

The construction of Bioleft continues through the artisanal weaving of articulations and community ties. On Monday, December 14, a while […]

GOSSI, Global Coalition of Open Source Seed Initiatives, launches its website, with information about GOSSI’s mission and its member organizations. […]

A new open corn variety Bioleft is being developed, generated from the exchanges and synergies of two producer-breeders of our […]

On October 20, Bioleft participated in the global summit of the Creative Commons organization, #CCSummit, with a talk on the […]

On October 13, Patrick Van Zwanenberg participated for Bioleft in the international webinar Collaborative and Open Crop Breeding: Challenges and […]

En un trabajo colectivo, mejoradorxs y productorxs acordaron que el sabor es un objetivo primordial en el mejoramiento de tomates.

The Steering Committee of the Global Open Source Seed Initiative – GOSSI elected the director of Bioleft, Anabel Marín, as […]

On September 24, more than fifty people from eleven countries – Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Spain, Portugal, […]

¡Salimos en la edición de invierno de la revista Tierra Negra! Muchas gracias por la invitación.

Educación pública, trabajo precario y semillas se ven afectadas por la pandemia. ¿Cómo cambian las prácticas sociales de transición en este contexto?

¿Para qué y para quién sirve la innovación? ¿Cómo desarrollar innovación para el bien común, ya no para el crecimiento económico? Estas preguntas vertebraron la conversación del panel Innovación, crecimiento ...

Next Tuesday, September 8th from 11 to 12.30, Anabel Marín, director of Bioleft, will present the proposal of the open […]

Productorxs, mejoradorxs, investigadorxs y semillerxs comienzan a tejer una red común para evaluar semillas de tomate adecuadas a manejos agroecológicos.

We are happy! We were invited to participate in the summer issue 2020 of XRDS – Crossroads, theAssociation for Computing […]

What would plants look like if they were designed by those who plant and harvest them? Forage plants are the […]

Ante más de ochenta personas de diversos países de América latina, la directora de Bioleft explicó la potencialidad de un sistema de semillas abiertas y mejoramiento participativo.

The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation renews its vote of confidence in Bioleft as a transformative tool in the transition […]

On Tuesday, May 26, ten open seed organizations from five continents met by video conference to advance a common agenda. […]

Este artículo resume cuatro años de trabajo conjunto, internacional y transdisciplinario de la Red Pathways - Transformative Knowledge Network, investigaciones acerca del impacto del conocimiento como herramienta de transformación social. ...

Hoy 26 de abril celebramos el Día Internacional de las Semillas 2020, o International Seed Day 2020. Miles de organizaciones […]

Our research colleagues at  STEPS Centre (UK) published this article a few days ago, which reflects on the role of […]

Bioleft se orienta cada vez más a promover y facilitar el mejoramiento participativo y colaborativo. Aquí, integrantes de la red […]

How do you choose a good corn? A group of breeders and producers worked with participatory methodologies to co-define observation variables

Seedy Sunday es una de las ferias de intercambio de semillas más importantes de las islas británicas; según sus organizadorxs, […]

Almendra Cremaschi y Pablo Pérez viajaron a la Ciudad de México para facilitar una capacitación sobre licencias y plataforma para productorxs, mejoradorxs, investigadorxs, funcionarixs y activistas.

What do you see when you see a tomato? What do tomato producers look at to eat it, sell it […]

Como parte de los tres experimentos que Bioleft conduce para testear y ajustar su red de mejoramiento colaborativo, durante 2019 […]

Cada año, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO, por su sigla en inglés) […]

Bioleft went through a process of intense growth in its early years, becoming a laboratory of research, co-design and implementation […]

La V Semana de la Agroecología organizada por la Red Nacional de Municipios y Comunidades que Fomentan la Agroecología (RENAMA) […]

Anabel Marín, directora de Bioleft, participa del Primer Seminario Internacional sobre agro, biotecnología, plantas y propiedad intelectual, organizado por la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos Aires y ...

Bioleft participa de la conferencia internacional Transformations 2019, en Santiago de Chile, que aborda procesos transdisciplinarios de cambio. 

“El problema es que los países del Norte tienen unos derechos de propiedad flexibles que les permiten apropiarse de la […]

Bioleft surgió a través de un proceso de cocreación en los T-Labs o Laboratorios de transformación. El 15 de octubre, el equipo facilitará un taller sobre esta metodología en la ...

Más de doscientas personas se comprometieron a sembrar, multiplicar y devolver semillas de tomate criollo, manteniendo su información genética siempre […]

La directora de Bioleft, Anabel Marín, fue invitada a participar del programa No dejes para mañana, en Radio con Vos. […]

El jueves 29 de agosto comienza la ¡octava! edición de la HacksHackers Media Party, festival de innovación en medios y […]

En el marco de un plan experimental, el criadero Cultivos del Sur

Este año, la biocapacidad anual de la Tierra fue totalmente consumida al 29 de julio. En 2019 usaremos los recursos de casi dos planetas. Esta es la fecha de Sobregiro ...

We are happy! Soon open seeds will be circulating in Mexico. The Global Consortium for Sustainability Outcomes (GCSO) selected a […]

Tras un largo proceso en el que se presentaron 300 proyectos de todo el mundo, Bioleft fue seleccionado junto a otras 15 organizaciones por The Conservation, Food & Health Foundation ...

“Today, just four giant companies control more than 60 percent of all the world’s seed sales”. The New York Times […]

The reflection on the importance of the open seeds is not of local importance, but global, and especially relevant for […]

Next week, from April 25 to 28, we will have the pleasure of being part of the 34th National Meeting […]

Heterogeneous, intense and hopeful. Such was the ambient at the workshop on Open Innovation and seeds that was held on […]

El viernes 5 de abril abriremos la segunda temporada del ciclo de Ciencia Abierta y Ciudadana con el taller “Innovación abierta y semillas para el desarrollo”. La idea es trabajar ...

Por Vanina Lombardi __ Agencia TSS – Con 15 voluntarios y sin presupuesto específico asignado, un grupo de investigadores, profesionales […]

Un equipo internacional y multidisciplinario trabajó durante dos semanas para sumarle funcionalidades a la plataforma de semillas abiertas, en busca de cubrir necesidades tanto para el sector productivo como para ...

Open systems have no borders. On January 21, Anabel Marín, director of Bioleft, was part of a discussion on #STIPolicy […]

Between February 14 and March 2, we will be part of a collaborative workshop to redesign food models with a view to environmental and social sustainability, at MediaLab Prado, Madrid, ...

By Patrick Van Zwanenberg At the launch of STEPS America Latina in 2015, one of the themes that we focused […]

El Gobierno avanza hacia la modificación de la Ley de Semillas con un proyecto elaborado a puertas cerradas que es […]

En el marco de la discusión sobre la ley de Semillas, manifestamos la necesidad urgente de generar un debate abierto y participativo acerca de las posibles direcciones de este cambio ...

El viernes 2 de noviembre participamos del II Congreso Argentino de Ciencia Abierta y Ciudadana #CIACIAR2018, organizado por FUNDACION CENIT, Cientópolis y la Escuela de […]

¿Qué pasa cuando se intenta transferir ideas de código abierto más allá del mundo digital? Los desafíos de poner en práctica el ideario del conocimiento abierto en comunidades poco familiarizadas ...

El viernes 2 de noviembre participaremos del gran encuentro nacional por la democratización de la ciencia. Hablaremos de innovación abierta en semillas y mejoramiento colaborativo.

Bioleft is a network that is strengthened with each new node that is added. This week, we started working together […]

Durante el Encuentro de Intercambio de Semillas Nativas y Criollas, en Tucumán, se transfirieron cinco variedades mejoradas de maíz y una forrajera.

La primera transferencia de semillas bajo el sistema Bioleft fue reseñada en Agencia TSS.

The team of CENIT Foundation showcased Bioleft initiative in front of a diversse audience interested in open systems.

A team of seed breeders from University of Buenos Aires transferred seeds to farmers for the first time under a new kind of open source contract, Bioleft.

Anabel Marín, coordinadora de Bioleft, presentó la iniciativa en el encuentro internacional.